pertinently

1. 1.

   in a pertinent way

   “what is singular about his use of them is that no other artist, of his time or any other, has painted them so directly, intimately and pertinently”

Questions about pertinently

What does pertinently mean?

pertinently means "in a pertinent way".

How many syllables are in pertinently?

pertinently has 4 syllables: per-ti-nent-ly. The stress falls on "per". In IPA it is /ˈpɝtɪnɪntli/.

Is pertinently a common word?

pertinently is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.